Recognizing the Alaya for Habits In dzogchen meditation, we first access and recognize the alaya for habits, then effulgent rigpa, and then essence rigpa. How to recognize the alaya for habits? The alaya for habits gives rise to seeing and hearing, as well as to imagining and...

Review Twelve Links We’ve been discussing how to stop the twelve links of dependent arising from recurring so that we can prevent uncontrollably recurring rebirth and gain liberation from samsara and all the suffering that is a part of this cycle. The way to do this is to get...

A true stopping of impure appearance-making occurs only with enlightenment.

An understanding of the four noble truths and karma offers us strategies to deal with the eight worldly concerns.

Jealousy is one of the disturbing emotions that can cause us to act in ways that are destructive and hurtful to others, as well as being self-destructive.

The “Kalachakra Six-Session Yoga” adds to the basic six-session practice recitation of many aspects of the path to enlightenment to meditate upon for building up positive force.

For Buddhist education to remain effective, it needs to adapt to the present-day needs, as it has always done in the past. Gain an overview of historical precedent to demonstrate that adapting to the times accords with the Buddhist principle of using skillful means.

Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche provides a deep analysis of the first few verses of the ninth chapter, “Discriminating Awareness,” from “Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior.”

The lam-rim graded path includes the pathways of renunciation, a bodhichitta aim and an understanding of emptiness.

Brief Review Our text is Bodhisattvacharyavatara, Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior, by the great master Shantideva. This is one of the texts in a collection of three known as “The Root, Engaging, and the Four” as previously explained. This text has ten chapters, and we are...